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Originally Posted by redbandit
. . . I was just dxd with BPD the other day, but had been told by a therapist previously that I have a personality disorder. She just kinda left it at that. Didnt explain it further or how to cope.
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After 3 years of effective therapy, I feel like I'm finally coming out of my PDNOS. But I still feel very frustrated about the years of ineffective therapy when nobody (including me) understood what the problem was, or how to address it.
It doesn't seem to me like NAMI and other mental health advocacy organizations are addressing this issue. Many focus on the "severe and persistent" mental illnesses. I feel mine was more like "moderate and chronic", although I did have a severe meltdown after my husband died.
Does this ring true for anybody else? With effective therapy becoming available for BPD (and I know I finally found someone who could help me with the who-knew-what-it-was problem that she diagnosed as PDNOS and DDNOS) -- I think generalist therapists need to be educated to diagnose PD's early on and TO REFER those clients to specialist therapists who know how to help. Plus, give the clients handouts of some of the good information that is on the internet. Yes, we can look it up ourselves, and should, but we need SOMETHING to hold onto when we walk out of a clinician's office with a diagnosis of a PD.